Doubt it'll matter much now that you've soaked them. Sitting in them won't stop them from shrinking any less, soaking again won't shrink anything dramatically. TBH, they don't look tight in the waist/crotch at all. See how much extra fabric there is in the top block compared to Sid's fit? They don't even look like the same model. I wondering if you didn't go far down enough because they look skin tight on Sid.

Doubt it'll matter much now that you've soaked them. Sitting in them won't stop them from shrinking any less, soaking again won't shrink anything dramatically. TBH, they don't look tight in the waist/crotch at all. See how much extra fabric there is in the top block compared to Sid's fit? They don't even look like the same model. I wondering if you didn't go far down enough because they look skin tight on Sid.

Actually, they really do ride up, contrary to how the pic looks, and I can definitely feel it. Or is that different than what you were referring to? And I didn't size down further because otherwise, the waist would be too small. I'm normally a 29W in Levi's and other stuff. Are people supposed to go down dramatically and then somehow get the waist lengthened so that they can actually button it? Maybe my hips aren't proportional to the slimness of my legs? EDIT: Oh wow, a 28W, 39L is the smallest that pair comes in, anyway (at least, from Self Edge). I couldn't size down even if I wanted to.

After my first soak, my new Flat Head S5001 have a big streak down the whole right thigh that's noticeably lighter than the rest of the jeans (you can see it from several feet away) and 2 spots near the crotch that are the same sort of thing, but roundish. Is this some kind of defect in the dyeing? The two by the crotch aren't really noticeable when I'm wearing them because my shirt is around there but the one on the thigh is bad enough that a friend asked if I spilled something on them. I've had 2 other pairs of Flat Heads that didn't look anything like these after the first soak so I'm a little worried

Do you dump chocolate on a plate of huevos rancheros because you really want dessert or do you order a slice of chocolate cake? You don't buy something with the idea that you're going to heavily alter it so that it comes out like what you should have bought the first time around.